California lost homeowners for the 2nd year in a row, a continuation of the political self-selection that is being called ‘The Great Migration‘. The mass exodus, nevertheless, still left California the most populated state in the nation. After 117,552 individuals left, the West Coast state’s population is now approximately the exact same size as it remained in 2016. It leads Texas, the 2nd most populated state, by nearly 10 million individuals– with an approximate population of 39.1 million to the Lone star’s 29.5 million homeowners.
Tens of thousands of Americans throughout the nation relocated in the wake of the pandemic’s prevalent lockdown and the increase in work-from-home. Thousands more desired more space and to reduce financial tension, according to a November 2020 study carried out by the Pew Research Center.
A minimum of 33% of those surveyed stated monetary factors such as task loss while 17% stated they transferred to be closer to household or a partner. The study likewise discovered that, by that point of the pandemic, 12% of participants stated they moved due to the fact that the existing location of their home had a lot of COVID-19 limitations.
California’s population decreased for the very first time in its recorded history in 2020.
“At the time, state officials thought it was an outlier, the result of a pandemic that turned the world upside down,” notes The Hill.
Records from the California Department of Financing on May 2nd reveal the state continued to lose homeowners throughout 2021, the 2nd year of the international pandemic. The department defined that the “0.3-percent decline represents a slowing compared to the 0.59-percent decline over the nine month period between the April 2020 Census date and the year’s end” which state jails in remote parts of California might trigger substantial modifications to the population.
In overall, 34 of the state’s 58 counties reported a decrease in population.
The most populated counties– Los Angeles County, San Diego County, and Orange County– reported the best decreases.
“While population growth remained strong in the interior counties of the Central Valley and the Inland Empire, the majority of counties saw declines, including every coastal county except San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz (due in part to college students returning to campus),” according to the report.
California’s continuing population hemorrhage is far from the only modification in population patterns produced in the wake of the pandemic.
In April, Pew Charitable Trust reported that a 3rd of states experienced a reduction in population throughout 2021.
Of these 17 states, 10 remained in the Northeast and Midwest. The greatest rates of loss remained in New York (-1.58%), Illinois (-0.89%), Hawaii (-0.71%) and California (-0.66%).
“Aside from states with declines, population grew slower over the year than over the 2010-20 period in 19 states,” states the study’s analysis. “Among them, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon experienced the biggest slowdown in growth compared with their decade-long pace.”
Conversely from California, 14 states experienced more growth than they had in the last decade. Among them were Idaho, Montana, Maine, and New Hampshire. Texas, South Carolina, Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, and Montana reported the highest population growth in the country.
H/T Timcast
